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Cerberus
Cerberus
12:20 AM
Oh, already?
 
 
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LCTS
LCTS
1:21 AM
Hello there
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
6:37 AM
 
 
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user314159
user314159
3:41 PM
@JasonBourne cya pal
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
4:54 PM
> barn, bolt, brass, chain, coomb, cord, cran, cup, day, dram, ell, foot, gill, grain, hand, hour, inch, kip, knot, league, line, link, mile, month, nail, ounce, palm, peck, pint, pipe, point, pole, pound, quart, rod, rope, rood, sack, seam, shot, skein, slug, span, square, stone, strike, therm, ton, tun, week, wey, yard, year
/səˈpinə/ ≠ /subˈpoe̯na/
 
 
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Færd
Færd
8:34 PM
There were always these strange and icky styles of Farsi that I would, as a child who read often, encounter especially with translations. I didn't know what it was, but I can still feel the disturbing sensation I got from them in the back of my head.
A few days back I was preparing an email for a friend and suddenly I realized that I had used a rule of English syntax (or style of narration, rather) in my writing, and that old feeling came alive in front of my eyes.
 
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Færd English Language & Usage: Setting a bad example for other languages!
 
Færd
Færd
Heh.
It's not the original language's fault. It's the translator's, obviously.
Or the speaker who has neither fully learned a second language nor preserved his common sense in using his first one.
(Correction: I didn't know what it was ...)
 
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
11:13 PM
@Færd Yeah, that's ugly.
-Icisms are usually ugly...
 
tchrist
tchrist
11:45 PM
> aleing [vbl. n.]
bingeing [vbl. n.] ← binge
blueing [vbl. n.]
buteing [vbl. n.] ← bute
canoeing [vbl. n.]
centreing [n.]
ˈCrusoeing ← Crusoe
cueing [vbl. n.]
grueing [vbl. n.]
hoeing [vbl. n.]
inˈoneing [vbl. n.] ← inone
ˈlugeing [vbl. n.] ← luge
mereing [n.]
ochreing [vbl. n.] ← ochre
oˈpaqu(e)ing [ppl. adj.] ← oˈpaque
routeing [vbl. n.]
ˈrueing [ppl. adj.1]
rueing [ppl. adj.2] ← rue
rueing [vbl. n.]
ˈsaleing [vbl. n.] ← sale
saltˈpetreing ← saltpetre
sautéing [vbl. n.] ← sauté
shoeing [vbl. n.]
@sumelic Try those ^^^^^^
 

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